Radeon Pro Duo, 32GB gddr5 $450 NEW
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One of the in depth reviews compares it to 2 rx 580s that are overclocked, so nowhere near a 2080.
guess i will stick to my 1070 for now... no point spending $700 on some ridiculous ray tracer that doesn't have anything that will ray trace right now....
i heard that the x265 gpu encoding quality is not as good as regular cpu rendering? that would be what needs to be changed soon hopefully...
i heard that the x265 gpu encoding quality is not as good as regular cpu rendering? that would be what needs to be changed soon hopefully...
This is a solid deal, but it's in a different category all together from a 2080.
These aren't gaming cards - gamers won't buy them, and CAD/pro workstation folks won't buy gaming cards. You can compare them based on architecture/etc to see which generation is which, but it doesn't do a lot of good from a "is this a good deal" standpoint.
The Radeon Pro are like the Quadro cards - ISV drivers (industry-specific certifications) and ECC memory at the expense of a little clock speed usually. This particular card is an incredibly good deal for a mid- to high-end workstation card if you're not worried about the 250W TDP. The WX9100 that replaced it isn't much faster and goes for $1500.
These aren't gaming cards - gamers won't buy them, and CAD/pro workstation folks won't buy gaming cards. You can compare them based on architecture/etc to see which generation is which, but it doesn't do a lot of good from a "is this a good deal" standpoint.
The Radeon Pro are like the Quadro cards - ISV drivers (industry-specific certifications) and ECC memory at the expense of a little clock speed usually. This particular card is an incredibly good deal for a mid- to high-end workstation card if you're not worried about the 250W TDP. The WX9100 that replaced it isn't much faster and goes for $1500.
Most of the Radeon Pro cards don't have ECC memory, only the high-end versions do, usually the top one and maybe the one below the top. Everything else (which is the majority of the Pro/Firepro line) doesn't.
WX9100 is not the replacement for the Pro Duo - those are different lines and are very different cards. One is a dual mid-range Frankenstein board, and the other is a proper top of the line last gen. WX9100 replaces Firepro W9100, and not the Pro Duo. And their performance is also very different.
This Pro Duo card is two Polaris chips (500 series "updates", if I recall correctly) on a single PCB, with 16 GB of regular GDDR5 memory per chip. It's not the kind of card that makes sense for most workstation users, its only advantage is a lot of ram for cheap, but as it's spread out between 2 GPUs - not many workloads will be able to benefit from it. I think most workstation users will be better off with a used Vega FE - they also work with pro drivers, they'll be faster in most scenarios, and they sell for about the same price. This Pro Duo is a good deal, but only for those that don't need powerful GPU and will actually use all those 32GB routinely - that's a very narrow user base. It does make WX7100 pretty much irrelevant at this price though. But then again, while Vega FE cards are still available on the used market for ~ $500 - they're probably the best deal for most workstations.
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Does anyone know if this board supports sr-iov? If its does, Id love to pick it up for some vdi testing.